A good portion of rural America still needs access to fast internet. Some worry that new directives that call for using less expensive broadband technology will make internet service less reliable.
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Fast broadband is widely available in urban areas, but not in many rural communities. Government figures show about 1 in 5 residents don’t have reliable access to the internet, and that is despite decades of efforts made to try to reach underserved areas. States were close to putting millions of dollars for broadband to use earlier this year, when the